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This book, dealing with soft rocks and soft rock engineering, is a result of the dedication and effort made by several members of the ISRM Technical Commission on Soft Rocks, who contributed individually or in association with several coauthors.
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Funding for this work was provided by the Soft Rock Engineering Mechanics Subject Development Strategy Research Project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (2017-JS-A-1).
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Kanji, M.A., He, M. (2020). Introduction. In: Kanji, M., He, M., Ribeiro e Sousa, L. (eds) Soft Rock Mechanics and Engineering . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29477-9_1
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